Car-door fastener.



W. V. OSBORNE.

CAR DOOR FASTENER.

APPLICATION mm MAY 7. 1914.

E. 1 37,,fi6 1 a Patented Apr. 27, 1915.

2 SHEETS-SHEET I- W. V. OSBORNE.

CAR DOOR FASTENER- APPLICATION FILED MAY]. 1914.

11, 1 37 1 Patented Apr. 27, 1915.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2- lll WILLIAM V. OSBORNE, OF BIACINE, WISCONSIN.

CAR-1300B FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 27, 1915.

Application filed. May 7, 1914. Serial No. 836,898.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM V. OsBonNn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Racine, in the county of Racine and State of Wisconsin, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Car-Door Fasteners, of which the following is a full, clear, concise, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to fasteners for car doors, and the object of my invention is to provide a device of this class that may be cheaply manufactured, one that may be readily positioned upon the movable and stationary elements of a car door, and one that may be easily manipulated to fasten and unfasten the movable door element.

The car door fastener of my invention may be used with either wire or tin seals, and effectually prevents the opening of the car door without breaking the seal after the several parts of the lock are in looking position and the seal has been placed thereon.

My invention is more fully set forth in the following description, and is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevational view of a car door provided with the improved fastener of my invention; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the fastener of my invention, certain parts of the door with which it is associated being illustrated in section; Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the fastener of my invention, illustrating how the seal pin may be reversed within its supporting lugs to adapt the fastener for either a right-hand or left-hand door; Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of the seal pin, and Fig. 5 is an isolated plan view of the seal pin.

Similar reference numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, I have illustrated a portion of a car at 6, a portion of a door frame at 7, and the movable element of the car door at 8. Secured in position upon the frame 7 by bolts or other equivalent means, illustrated at 9, is an escutcheon plate 10, which may have formed integral therewith a j amb plate 11 disposed in a plane normal to the plane of the escutcheon plate 10. Formed integral with the escutcheon plate 10 and projecting forward therefrom are the lugs 12 and 13, each of which has an aperture 14 therethrough.

Formed in the escutcheon plate 10 at substantially its middle point is an opening 15 through which a seal pin 16 is arranged to be inserted to operative position. Attention is directed to the fact that the top of the opening 15 (Fig. 3) is chamfered in a line passing through the aperture in the lug 12, whereas the bottom of the opening 15 is chamfered in a line passing through the aperture in the lug 13. In a similar manner, both the forward and rear edges of the apertures 14 in the lugs 12 and 13 are chamfered in lines passing through the opening 15 in the escutcheon plate 10. The seal pin 16 is provided with a shoulder 17 having a flat side 18. When the pin 16 is inserted to operative position, the top of the seal pin is passed through the aperture in the upper lug 12 and the pin is moved upwardly until the shoulder 17 comes into engagement with the escutcheon plate. The pin is then turned slightly to bring the flat side of the shoulder 17 adjacent the top of the opening 15 in the escutcheon plate, whereupon the pin 16 may be drawn through the opening 15. When the pin 16 is in operative position, the lower end of the pin projects through the aperture 14 in the lower lug 13 with the shoulder 17 resting upon the top of said lug. By providing the opening 15 with chamfered sides and by providing the seal pin with a shoulder of the conformation just described, I am enabled to use a much smaller opening in the escutcheon plate than would otherwise be possible.

Pivoted to the movable door element 8 by means of a staple 19 is a hasp 20 provided with a slot 21 adapted to be passed over the lower one of the lugs with which the escutcheon plate is provided. It will be seen that when the hasp and seal pin are in the position shown in Fig. 1, the hasp can not be removed from the lug 13 until the seal pin has been withdrawn from the aperture in said lug.

Formed in the seal pin 16 above the shoulder 17 is a transverse opening 22 connected by a longitudinal opening 23 with another transverse opening 24 through the seal pin below the shoulder 17. When the several parts are in the position shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, a seal of any suitable conformation may be placed through the openings 22, 23 and 24, as illustrated. This arrangement effectually prevents the seal pin from being withdrawn from the lower lug plate, a pair without breaking the seal. Consequently, the hasp 20 can not be disengaged from the lower lug without breaking the seal.

In Figs, 1 and 2 I have illustrated how the car door fastener of my invention is applied to a right-hand door. When the fastener is to be applied to a left-hand door, the escutcheon plate 10 is disposed upon the door frame with the lug 13 uppermost. Before the escutcheon plate is secured in position, the pin 16 is inserted so that the top thereof passes through the lug 13, the bottom thereof resting within the aperture in the lug 12.

The car door fastener of my invention is conveniently constructed of cast iron, although I do not limit myself to any particular material.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is 1-. A car door fastener comprising an escutcheon plate arranged to be carried by a door frame, an opening in the escutcheon of lugs carried by the escutcheon plate and disposed on opposite sides of said opening, an aperture in each of said lugs, the front and rear edges of the aperture in the upper lug being chamfered on lines passing through the opening in the escutcheon plate, and a pin arranged tobe inserted 1' through the opening in the escutcheon plate,

said pin provided with a shoulder adapted I to rest on the lower lug.

2. A car door fastener comprising in com binatlon an escutcheon plate, a pair of substantially parallel lugs projecting from the front face of said escutcheon plate, an aperture in each of said lugs, a seal pin passing through both of said apertures and provided with a shoulder arranged to rest on the ower lug, a transverse opening through said seal pin above the lower lug, a transverse opening through said seal pin below the lower lug, and a longitudinal opening through the p1n connecting said transverse openings.

an opening extending longitudinally and laterally therethrough and terminating on opposite sides of one of said lugs when the seal pin is in looking position.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this 1st day of May, A. D. 1914.

WILLIAM V. OSBORNE.

Witnesses:

EDGAR S. CRAIG, EDGAR JANEs.

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